GB
Oh dear - one for the archives.
Northern Ireland news thread
I've just seen a recording of last night's 10.25 bulletin on BBC1 NI.Oh dear - one for the archives.
GB
Oh dear - one for the archives.
Northern Ireland news thread
I've just seen a recording of last night's 10.25 bulletin on BBC1 NI.Oh dear - one for the archives.
GB
The World Snooker Championship titles are so awful and so silly.
Oh, and they've re-jigged the snooker music so that it's even worse than before.
The Sport Thread
Anyone else just seen quite possibly the daftest opening titles ever to a BBC sports programme?The World Snooker Championship titles are so awful and so silly.
Oh, and they've re-jigged the snooker music so that it's even worse than before.
GB
The World Snooker Championship titles are so awful and so silly.
Oh, and they've re-jigged the snooker music so that it's even worse than before.
The Sport Thread
Anyone else just seen quite possibly the daftest opening titles ever to a BBC sports programme?The World Snooker Championship titles are so awful and so silly.
Oh, and they've re-jigged the snooker music so that it's even worse than before.
GB
('Blockbusters' began the same week as the first series of 'Auf Weidersehen, Pet', again it had the original Central logo.)
Vernon Kay's Gameshow Marathon
When 'Blockbusters' began in September 1983, the Central logo that preceded the programme (and the endcap that followed it for that matter) was the original 'eclipse' logo, not the one shown last evening.('Blockbusters' began the same week as the first series of 'Auf Weidersehen, Pet', again it had the original Central logo.)
GB
What does that mean? Northern Ireland has never been with the Republic to go back to it - the Republic (or Free State as it was) broke away from the UK, Northern Ireland opted to stay in the UK.
The Republic is doing very well at present, but its ecomomy is fuelled by a property and consumer boom, and is at the behest of a France-Germany dominated ECB. Inflation is rising steadily, there are problems ahead. If Scotland decides to 'go it alone', as the SNP advocate, the Republic might seem like a good example to emulate now, but not in the future. In addition, the Scots wouldn't benefit from hand-outs as the Republic did in the 1980s and 1990s which assisted its economic and infrastructural advancement.
More to the point, British TV programmes, whether shown on RoI stations or watched on UK stations in the Republic, are very popular, emphasising the point I made earlier in the thread. It's unfortunate that there are not more Irish productions, from NI or the RoI, on UK network television, though it would need to be on merit of course.
Scottish Independence
Johnny83 posted:
Northern Ireland probably would end up best off out of the three nations if they went independent as they would most likely go back with the republic
What does that mean? Northern Ireland has never been with the Republic to go back to it - the Republic (or Free State as it was) broke away from the UK, Northern Ireland opted to stay in the UK.
The Republic is doing very well at present, but its ecomomy is fuelled by a property and consumer boom, and is at the behest of a France-Germany dominated ECB. Inflation is rising steadily, there are problems ahead. If Scotland decides to 'go it alone', as the SNP advocate, the Republic might seem like a good example to emulate now, but not in the future. In addition, the Scots wouldn't benefit from hand-outs as the Republic did in the 1980s and 1990s which assisted its economic and infrastructural advancement.
More to the point, British TV programmes, whether shown on RoI stations or watched on UK stations in the Republic, are very popular, emphasising the point I made earlier in the thread. It's unfortunate that there are not more Irish productions, from NI or the RoI, on UK network television, though it would need to be on merit of course.
GB
The four (or five) parts of the UK/British Isles and the peoples of the two main islands have been entwined for hundreds of years, are enriched by each other and will always be thus - 'independence' would hardly change that.
Scottish Independence
I don't see why the BBC would necessarily have to cease if the Union broke-up - there would continue to be the maximum co-operation, cultural exchange and people have so much in common with each other (as well as diversity) that instiutions like the BBC could well exist post independence for any and all of the constituent parts of the UK.The four (or five) parts of the UK/British Isles and the peoples of the two main islands have been entwined for hundreds of years, are enriched by each other and will always be thus - 'independence' would hardly change that.
GB
Makes it seem like a remake of The Wizard of Oz.
Life On Mars
[quote="stevek"]would have been good to have seen the central characters in 2007, Annie could have been a nurse Ray and Chris doctors and Gene a porter or something.[/quoteMakes it seem like a remake of The Wizard of Oz.
GB
I think there was a break for 'Breakfast News', then back on until lunchtime on the Friday, but there are still (at 4.30am) 49 results to come, including all of the results from NI, which included Gerry Adams getting the boot in West Belfast.
(People in NI probably wouldn't have seen a lot of the later coverage before, as BBC NI would have had their own programme on from mid-morning on the Friday.)
1992 General Election
Quite amusing that they're now talking about the ERM - it was only five months later that currency speculators starting messing about with the £ and the whole Tory victory seemed very phyrric.I think there was a break for 'Breakfast News', then back on until lunchtime on the Friday, but there are still (at 4.30am) 49 results to come, including all of the results from NI, which included Gerry Adams getting the boot in West Belfast.
(People in NI probably wouldn't have seen a lot of the later coverage before, as BBC NI would have had their own programme on from mid-morning on the Friday.)
GB
No change there, I know they're slow, but 15 years and still counting ....
1992 General Election
Still no results from Northern Ireland I see.No change there, I know they're slow, but 15 years and still counting ....